Wall Street Journal
Reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where he writes a weekly column called "Middle East Crossroads"; author of The Siege of Mecca: The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine and Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu
The Anatomy of Radicalization Mohammed Emwazi isn’t the only westerner who has joined ISIS. About 5,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq come from Europe, North America, or Australia. Just yesterday, three men were arrested in Brooklyn on charges that they planned to carry out attacks here and then join ISIS in Syria. And it’s not only men becoming radicalized. Earlier this week, London police said three teenage British girls suspected of running away to join ISIS have likely made it to Syria. Why has ISIS been so successful at recruiting men and women from western cities?
ISIS and al-Qaeda in Paris? More information has been coming out about the men responsible for the Paris attacks last week. One of the brothers who killed twelve people at the offices Charlie Hebdo magazine spent time in a French prison for jihadi activities. While he was there, he met the man who killed four hostages at a kosher supermarket. The men claimed to be affiliated with both al-Qaeda and ISIS. Are those international terrorist groups behind the attacks, or was this a homegrown operation?
Karzai Says Taliban Killing Afghans 'in Service to America' Relations between the US and Afghanistan just keep getting worse and worse. Chuck Hagel, the new Secretary of Defense, was greeted by suicide bomb attacks last week when he arrived in Afghanistan. He held a tense meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai , and as Hagel was leaving Afghanistan, there was another insider attack near Kabul, leaving two US soldiers dead. Yaroslov Trofimov is the Afghanistan editor for the Wall Street Journal .
Karzai Says Taliban Killing Afghans 'in Service to America' Relations between the US and Afghanistan just keep getting worse and worse. Chuck Hagel, the new Secretary of Defense, was greeted by suicide bomb attacks last week when he arrived in Afghanistan. He held a tense meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai , and as Hagel was leaving Afghanistan, there was another insider attack near Kabul, leaving two US soldiers dead. Yaroslov Trofimov is the Afghanistan editor for the Wall Street Journal .
Why is Trump so behind on filling staff jobs, establishing concrete policies? Yesterday Donald Trump signed a “decision memo” to revamp the air traffic control system. But there was little legislative detail in the plan. There’s not much to other splashy announcements from the White House, including tax cuts and the arms deal with Saudi Arabia. And hundreds of positions are unfilled in federal agencies.
In 'Speechless,' Scott Silveri combines comedy, family & disability Scott Silveri has written and produced sitcoms for more than 20 years. In all that time, he never encountered a TV family that looked anything like the one he grew up in -- with a mom, a dad...and a brother with cerebral palsy. He changed that with his show Speechless on ABC. Silveri tells us about looking to his own past for stories, and why he was determined to make a family comedy and not just a "disability show."
Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé Morgan Parker says that the poems in her book There Are Things More Beautiful than Beyoncé take a stand against the clichés of the dominant culture.
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."